1. resembling or characteristic of an ape in appearance or behavior

Examples

• The actor’s apelike movements made his performance convincing.
• His long arms gave him an apelike appearance.
• The creature had apelike features and walked on its knuckles.
• She criticized his apelike behavior at the dinner table.
• The fossil showed apelike characteristics in the skull structure.
• His apelike agility allowed him to swing from branch to branch.